Armenian FM not optimistic about normalization of relations with  Turkey

ArmInfo. Armenia adhered to and adheres to the principle of having good-neighborly relations with its neighbors without preconditions. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab  Mnatsakanyan said this in an interview with Radio Liberty, touching upon relations with Turkey, possible progress in normalizing relations and changing the position of Ankara on the Karabakh issue.

He reminded that Armenia made a great political and diplomatic  contribution to the normalization of relations with Turkey, which  failed because of the fault of Ankara, not of Yerevan, but of  Armenia. "For today, I have not heard a single statement that would  reassure, and showed that we can believe that on the other hand there  is a willingness." We adhered to and adhere to the principle of  having good-neighborly relations with neighbors without  preconditions, after all, geography is not but we know perfectly well  that there are realities, we do not do this to the detriment of our  interests and are not ready to do it.What we say is based on the  interests of all, as well as the interests of regional stability, but  we are not ready to do this to the detriment of our interests ", -  with AZAL Nalbandian.

At the same time, he stressed that the formula is one -  good-neighborly relations in the name of regional stability, but, no  harm to special interests. He also noted that there are some  fundamental issues that the Armenian side did not put forward as  preconditions for the normalization of relations with Turkey.

Recall that on March 1 of this year, Armenia denounced the  Armenian-Turkish protocols (Zurich protocols) on the normalization of  relations signed in 2009.

It should be noted that the Armenian-Turkish protocols were signed in  Zurich on October 10, 2009.  However, the protocols were never  ratified by the parliaments of Armenia and Turkey, since Ankara  constantly put forward preconditions for ratification. In this  connection, the process of ratification of the protocols in the  Armenian parliament was frozen by the order of the then President  Serzh Sargsyan. And in February 2015 they were withdrawn from  parliament.

In the second half of 2017, the then President of Armenia from the  rostrum of the UN General Assembly announced that Armenia will meet  the spring of 2018 without the Armenian-Turkish protocols, since  there is no positive progress in their implementation.